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.doc saved as wordpad
When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved as
wordpad. How do I fix this? -- Bonnie |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "BAK2MI" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:49 PM Subject: .doc saved as wordpad When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved as wordpad. How do I fix this? -- Bonnie TOOLS / OPTIONS / Compatability / Recommended Options for: / select file type (not Word 6.0 or 97) |
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You need to "reregister" Word, that is, reassociate it with the .doc and
..dot file types in the Windows Registry. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BAK2MI" wrote in message ... When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved as wordpad. How do I fix this? -- Bonnie |
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I tried this and then did a test. Word documents still save as a wordpad
document and when I try to open them I have to right click on the document file name and tell it to open with wordpad. -- Bonnie "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You need to "reregister" Word, that is, reassociate it with the .doc and ..dot file types in the Windows Registry. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BAK2MI" wrote in message ... When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved as wordpad. How do I fix this? -- Bonnie |
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Why not right-click and tell it to open with Word?
On the Save tab of Tools | Options, what is selected as the default save format? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BAK2MI" wrote in message ... I tried this and then did a test. Word documents still save as a wordpad document and when I try to open them I have to right click on the document file name and tell it to open with wordpad. -- Bonnie "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You need to "reregister" Word, that is, reassociate it with the .doc and ..dot file types in the Windows Registry. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BAK2MI" wrote in message ... When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved as wordpad. How do I fix this? -- Bonnie |
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Options was set to save as a word document. I did one more thing and that
was to remove my McAfee virus protection as I was where the documents were being scanned and thought maybe this was causing an error. Well, I finally had success once I removed it and now all documents are opening automatically without having to right click to open with wordpad. I will reinstall the virus protection and hopefully whatever was the cause will not come back again. Thanks for your suggestions! -- Bonnie "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Why not right-click and tell it to open with Word? On the Save tab of Tools | Options, what is selected as the default save format? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BAK2MI" wrote in message ... I tried this and then did a test. Word documents still save as a wordpad document and when I try to open them I have to right click on the document file name and tell it to open with wordpad. -- Bonnie "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You need to "reregister" Word, that is, reassociate it with the .doc and ..dot file types in the Windows Registry. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "BAK2MI" wrote in message ... When I save my word documents as .doc, the files are converted and saved as wordpad. How do I fix this? -- Bonnie |
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